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"It will help the (transgender community) tremendously, whose voices are hardly heard by the public. It helps with their visibility."

Ying Xin, executive director of the Beijing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center, said after Li Yinhe, a leading Chinese sexologist, made public on Thursday that she has been living with a transgender man for 17 years. The revelation has sparked a rare public discussion about China's largely invisible and marginalized transgender community.